Its main theme, at first sight, is revenge, but in the end, I read it as story about the power of stories, their ability to mess with our heads.
"What I always liked about country music was the stories, the ability to talk about very real things like divorce and drinking and death and jail," she says.
But it certainly can provide a showcase for one of its biggest success stories – the ability, in spite of it all, to swagger.
But King Harald's Saga, written when she was in her mid-20s in 1979, embodies the qualities that still define Weir's musical thinking: her concern to tell stories, her ability to distil musical and dramatic ideas to their essences, and her creation of an idiom that's full of expressive subtlety but is never anything less than richly communicative.
Finally, Snapchat is co-opting perhaps my favorite feature of Instagram Stories — the ability to rewind.
She will be remembered for her tremendous story-telling ability, unmatched knowledge of culture and history, and her kindness and devotion to her family.
Three things really fascinate me about the new digital writing toolkit: the possibility of increased immersion in a story, the ability to represent choice, and the way the audience can influence the story.
After all, when linked story collections work well they give the reader both the glorious ephemerality of the short story — its ability to capture what André Bazin called in a different context "contingency," the singular one-time event — and also some of the cooler aspects of the novel: its relational longue durée and its what-comes-next propulsion.
In this story, the ability to take a life marks the line between adults and children.
